Kochi
Americannoun
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a seaport on central Shikoku, in SW Japan.
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Formerly Cochin. a seaport in W Kerala, in SW India: first European fort in India, built by Portuguese in 1503.
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a port in SW Japan, on central Shikoku on Urado Bay. Pop: 326 490 (2002 est)
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another name for Cochin
Example Sentences
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A third Iranian ship passed Sri Lanka and entered safe harbour in India’s southern port of Kochi.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
Her owner at the time parted ways with the Kochi racetrack and Urara disappeared for several years after her retirement.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
For her book launch earlier this week, hundreds packed into the cavernous women's college auditorium in Kochi - fittingly called the Mother Mary Hall - with an overflow crowd watching on a live stream outside.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
Preliminary interviews with officials in Kochi, India, confirmed the credit for their resilience was due to many of the factors the team had identified in the data.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
He added that Arata Kochi, as head of the TB program for WHO, had come to recognize this threat and had introduced the idea of a DOTS-plus strategy.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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